LATE 18TH CENTURY

Details

A George III mahogany, satinwood and marquetry, black and parcel-gilt polescreen
Late 18th Century
The banner inlaid with eagle-masks holding swags and apparently original, the finial later, with a later paper property label for Princess Margaret
58 in. (147.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Almost certainly given to H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon on the occasion of her marriage to Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, Earl of Snowdon on 6 May 1960 by Nancy, Viscountess Astor, 100 Eaton Square, London S.W.1.

Placed in the Drawing Room of the Private Apartment of H.R.H. The Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon at Kensington Palace.

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Lot Essay

The marquetry Roman-medallion screen, displaying a palm-flowered, eagle-headed and veil-draped sacred urn is supported on an Etruscan-black tripod pillar and palm-flowered and Grecian-scrolled 'claw' as introduced in the 1780s and featured in Thomas Sheraton's, Cabinet-Maker and Upholsterer's Drawing Book, 1793 (pl.38) . This eagle-embellished screen was a present from the Virginia-born Nancy Astor (d.1964), who had refurnished Cliveden, Buckinghamshire following her marriage in 1906 to Waldorf, 2nd Viscount Astor (d.1952).

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